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Cynthia Dewi Oka

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in Denpasar , Indonesia

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http://www.cynthiadewioka.wordpress.com

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Poetry

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Audre Lorde, Joy Harjo, Derek Walcott, Rainer Maria Rilke, Mahmoud Dar ...more

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October 2012

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Cynthia Dewi Oka is a poet and author of "nomad of salt and hard water" (Dinah Press, 2012) and the chapbook "poems from the cracks" (2010). Born and raised in Bali, Indonesia, Cynthia migrated to Turtle Island at the age of 10 and was a visitor for many years in Vancouver, unceded Coast Salish Territories prior to residing in New Jersey. An alumnus of the Voices of Our Nations (VONA) Workshops, her poems have or will soon appear in Boxcar Poetry Review, Generations Literary Journal, Zocalo Poets, Borderline Poetry, 580 Split, SCHOOL Magazine, Briarpatch Magazine and Kweli Journal, among other publications. As a scholar and activist, her essays have been published in Studies in Political Economy, CitizenShift and Leftturn: the Global Intifa ...more

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Cynthia Dewi Oka's Blog

Post-Election Song of Myself

Time walked across the street called midnight.

It left us standing in a forest of pundits and their fluorescent fruit.

Still, it was dim. As water in the bowels of the city, as the impression that I had been here before, looking over this fear in the shape of a red pudding, trembling at the fork’s slightest gesture.

What good is the fork when hunger is gone?

There is no secret to resurrection buried u

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	Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism by Dani Barnhart (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Iris Mahan (Editor), Jordan Scherer (Narrator) 3.73 avg rating — 754 ratings — published 2018 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines by Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Editor), China Martens (Editor), Mai'a Williams (Editor) 4.56 avg rating — 566 ratings — published 2016 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Tinderbox in Three Acts 4.33 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump by Martín Espada (Editor), Julia Alvarez (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Doug Anderson (Contributor) 4.33 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fire Is Not a Country: Poems 4.21 avg rating — 38 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Salvage 4.42 avg rating — 26 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nomad of Salt and Hard Water 4.57 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Soul Sister Revue: A Poetry Compilation by Cynthia Manick (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Hanif Abdurraqib (Contributor), Rico Frederick (Illustrator) 4.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Read Women: An Anthology by Amanda Fuller (Editor), Carolann Madden (Editor), Carly Joy Miller (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	PacificReview 2017: A West Coast Arts Review Annual by Hari Alluri, Carlos Kelly, Breeann Kyte Kirby 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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